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Neil YoungRust Never Sleeps

Hot Stamper (A+ - A++) sound on both sides of this great sounding copy

It's not easy to find copies that get both the quieter, acoustic material and the big, rockin' Crazy Horse stuff right, but this one did

5 stars: "His strongest collection since Tonight's the Night, its obvious antecedent was Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, and, as Dylan did, Young divided his record into acoustic and electric sides while filling his songs with wildly imaginative imagery."

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Yes Close To The Edge

Good sound marries quiet vinyl here, a true Mint Minus side one and Mint Minus to Mint Minus Minus on side two

This incredibly complex recording has huge organs, light-speed changes and an abundance of multi-tracked parts

5 stars: "Close to the Edge comprised just three tracks, the epic "And You and I" and "Siberian Khatru," plus a side-long title track that represented the musical, lyrical, and sonic culmination of all that Yes had worked toward over the past five years."

A Better Records Top 100 Album and a real sonic blockbuster if you have the system for it

"... a listening delight... 10cc is among the few groups actively engaged in stretching rock's restrictive boundaries in a constructive and meaningful manner, without falling prey to pretense or excess." --Allmusic

Super Hot Stamper

Rod StewartEvery Picture Tells A Story

(Item #: stewaevery_1711_2)Our Price:$199.99

Excellent Double Plus (A++) sound from beginning to end and one of the better copies from our most recent shootout

This recording balances incredible power in the bass and drums, and some of the best rock bass ever recorded, with beautifully realized acoustic guitars and mandolins - something that virtually no recording for the last twenty plus years can claim

A Top 100 album, and Rod's best music and best recording by far - nothing can touch it

"It's a beautiful album, one that has the timeless qualities of the best folk, yet one that rocks harder than most pop music — few rock albums are quite this powerful or this rich." — Allmusic 5 Stars

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Rush2112

A transparent, clear, lively and full copy with huge drums and natural cymbals

It's beyond difficult to find truly great sound for Rush, but this copy rocks like crazy

4 1/2 stars on Allmusic: "2112 proved to be their much sought-after commercial breakthrough and remains one of their most popular albums ... the trio's members were fast becoming rock's most accomplished instrumentalists"

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Gerry RaffertyCity To City

Excellent Double Plus (A++) sound from start to finish on this early British pressing of Rafferty's Must Own Classic

You won't believe how rich, Tubey Magical, big, undistorted and present this copy is

About as quiet as they come -- Mint Minus to Mint Minus Minus

Allmusic 4 1/2 stars: "Rafferty's turns of phrase and tight composition skills create a fresh sound and perspective all his own... resulting in a classic platter buoyed by many moments of sheer genius."

4 1/2 stars: "... [I]n 1969 this was envelope-ripping, genre-busting music, scaling established boundaries into unknown territory, not only "outside the box" but outside of any musical box that had been conceived at that moment..."

White Hot Stamper

The Moody BluesOn The Threshold Of A Dream

A stunning copy with two incredible sides -- you won't believe all the Tubey Magic on this one!

Triple Plus (A+++) throughout, this is one of their best albums for both music and sound

This pressing is cleaner, clearer, richer, sweeter, and more present than you could have imagined in your wildest dreams

There is a mark that plays at the beginning of side two, so we are discounting this one accordingly

"... [I]n 1969 this was envelope-ripping, genre-busting music, scaling established boundaries into unknown territory, not only "outside the box" but outside of any musical box that had been conceived at that moment..." -- Allmusic, 4 1/2 stars

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The Moody BluesOn The Threshold Of A Dream

With Hot Stamper grades on both sides, this is a nice step up over the average copy

A pressing like this brings all the psychedelic Moody Blues magic to life in your living room

Both sides here are big, full and lively with a nice bottom end; dead quiet too -- a true Mint Minus

"... [I]n 1969 this was envelope-ripping, genre-busting music, scaling established boundaries into unknown territory, not only "outside the box" but outside of any musical box that had been conceived at that moment..." -- Allmusic, 4 1/2 stars

The title track and Take The Money and Run both sound amazing, as does everything else

"The key is focus, even on an album as stylishly, self-consciously trippy as this, since the focus brings about his strongest set of songs (both originals and covers), plus a detailed atmospheric production where everything fits." - 4 1/2 stars

5 Stars in Allmusic and a classic of "catchy, relatively unadorned guitar rock."

"The album is an alternately rousing and heartbreaking cycle of infectious pop rockers ("Cynical Girl," "Rockin' Around in N.Y.C.," "She Can't Dance") and ballads ("Mary Anne," "Not for Me") — none of them clocking in at more than 3:07."

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Creedence Clearwater RevivalWilly and the Poor Boys

With Hot Stamper grades on both sides this is a very good sounding copy from first note to last

Five Stars on Allmusic, featuring Down On The Corner, Fortunate Son, Midnight Special and more

"Fortunate Son is one of the greatest, hardest rock & rollers ever cut, so it might seem to be out of step with an album that is pretty laid-back and friendly, but there's that elemental joy that by late '69 was one of CCR's main trademarks."

A New Wave Classic and 5 stars in the All Music Guide: "These songs illustrated that the B-52's' adoration of camp culture... was a world view capable of turning out brilliant pop singles and, in turn, influencing mainstream pop culture... a hell of a good time."